Switching cars in Guadalupe, on California's Central Coast, is Southern Pacific SD7R 1500. Built by EMD in January 1953 as SP SD7 5292, this engine was renumbered to SP 2713 in the railroad's mas... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP Daylight, 2nd 99, is seen at the Third & Townsend Street station in San Francisco California on July 26th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The old SP Colton Yard etc. was down by the grain mill in the distance. To handle eastbound trains over Beaumont Hill they kept a helper pocket just east of the old yard. Here a helper set await... (more)

Oh, California, America's parsidse lost, you affect us all, especially when we have lived there. We long for what you once were. Here a westbound ore train whines down Beaumont Hill for Fontana, ... (more)

"The Logger" is running west to Potlatch where it will join the local from Lewiston and head back to Marshall. #6304 was on lease to Washington & Idaho for quite some time.

Mixed consist going fast. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.

SP 4449 sits on display at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.

A westbound train on the Modoc Line approaches the US 395 grade crossing at Likely, California in summer 1990. Today, the grade from here south to Wendel is a hiking trail.

Under threatening skies, two brand-new SD70Ms on an eastbound train await a rested crew.

Southern Pacific 794, an Alco 2-8-2 built in 1916 for SP and erected as a static display in 1957 by Southern Pacific Railroad, the City of San Antonio, the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club ... (more)

SP 2-8-2 790 leads a 57 car westbound freight at Galveston Texas in 1936. Otto's speed estimate was 18 MPH, and he caught it with the rods down. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.